Thursday, April 30, 2015

We
hope Marquette can pick up one of the top available players fromour rankings
here. Tonight we run through the competition -
ranking all the conferences competing with the Big East for bids, and ranking
both their teams and top 40 players.

Pascal Siakam from Cameroon projects to be a huge star and could take New Mexico State to a conference title. He wrapped up his freshman season with 8 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocked shots against Kansas in the tournament. For the season, he was in the top 1% of offensive rebounding and in the top few percent in drawing fouls, blocking shots and shooting percentage.

Natl Rnk

Conference

Team

Record

Raw

Value Add

27

Western Athletic

WAC

9.39

103

New Mexico St.

23--11

17.57

19.43

210

UMKC

14--19

15.54

11.89

218

Cal St. Bakersfield

14--19

12.76

11.34

251

Grand Canyon

17--15

10.39

9.75

300

Seattle

18--16

3.76

7.25

319

Texas Pan American

10--21

8.27

5.78

327

Chicago St.

8--24

6.59

5.17

334

Utah Valley

11--19

4.43

4.48

Natl Rnk

Top 40 Players

Team

Ht

Yr

Value Add

30

Siakam, Pascal 43

New Mexico St.

6'9

2 So

7.87

164

Braun, Joshua 2

Grand Canyon

6'4

2 So

5.44

216

Basile, Dedrick

Cal St. Bakersfield

5'10

3 Jr

5

237

Baker, Ian 4

New Mexico St.

6'0

3 Jr

4.9

283

Joesaar, Janari 21

Texas Pan American

6'6

3 Jr

4.61

613

Harrison, Martez 12

UMKC

5'11

3 Jr

3.16

616

Knight, Noah 42

UMKC

6'1

2 So

3.15

650

Taylor, Deshon 2

UMKC

6'3

2 So

3.03

844

Austin, Darius 23

UMKC

6'6

2 So

2.59

976

Owens, Clemmye 21

Chicago St.

6'1

3 Jr

2.3

999

Wrapp, Brent 1

Cal St. Bakersfield

6'3

2 So

2.24

1090

Murray, Emerson 2

Seattle

6'3

4 Sr

2.12

1233

Kimasa, Dan 23

Texas Pan American

6'9

2 So

1.92

1263

Davis, De'Andre 11

Grand Canyon

6'1

2 So

1.86

1363

Hobbs, Isaiah 3

Texas Pan American

6'4

2 So

1.74

1464

Nelson, Zach 21

Utah Valley

6'7

3 Jr

1.6

1514

Airington, Jaylin 11

Cal St. Bakersfield

6'4

3 Jr

1.55

1515

Majerle, Ryan 4

Grand Canyon

6'3

4 Sr

1.55

1531

Smith, Thaddeus 21

UMKC

6'9

4 Sr

1.53

1536

Palmer, Trayvon 5

Chicago St.

6'4

3 Jr

1.52

1634

Mays, Kevin 10

Cal St. Bakersfield

6'4

4 Sr

1.4

1679

Russell, DeWayne 0

Grand Canyon

5'11

4 Sr

1.33

1855

Batson, Joshua 21

Chicago St.

6'0

4 Sr

1.13

1856

Adekova, Jawad 33

Chicago St.

6'6

4 Sr

1.13

1882

Davis, Marcel 2

Utah Valley

6'1

4 Sr

1.11

1905

Huggins, Braxton 2

New Mexico St.

6'5

2 So

1.09

1962

Landry, Travon 0

New Mexico St.

6'1

3 Jr

1.02

1970

Penne, Jalyn 35

New Mexico St.

6'7

2 So

1.01

2092

Pride, Justin

Cal St. Bakersfield

5'10

3 Jr

1

2245

Eriobuna, Ikem

UMKC

6'9

3 Jr

1

2388

Goodman, Dayon 33

Utah Valley

6'7

2 So

0.89

2410

Ahmed, Aly 42

Cal St. Bakersfield

6'9

4 Sr

0.86

2427

Taylor, Matt 5

New Mexico St.

6'5

2 So

0.85

2448

Bhullar, Tanveer 21

New Mexico St.

7'3

2 So

0.83

2451

Gubler, Boston 45

Utah Valley

6'8

2 So

0.83

2464

Newbill, Broderick 25

UMKC

6'5

3 Jr

0.81

2617

Richmond, Dashawn 5

Cal St. Bakersfield

6'3

4 Sr

0.61

2679

Cramer, Lewis 33

Seattle

6'6

4 Sr

0.53

2698

Dimakos, Jared 11

Chicago St.

6'5

4 Sr

0.51

2724

Powell, William 21

Seattle

6'6

3 Jr

0.5

These are the top 40 players in the conference based on the
rankings at www.valueaddbasketball.com.
The team rankings are 50% based on the sum of each team’s Value Add ratings and
50% based on last year (since better teams typically replenish after losing
stars). With over 4000 players projected in the database, we WELCOME all
corrections in the comments field.

Value Add was first introduced on www.crackedsidewalks.com, and
calculates how many points better each player is worth to his team over how
good they would be if he was replaced. The projections measure the standard
improvement in a player between his freshman, sophomore, junior and senior
seasons, and the evaluation of incoming freshman and JUCO players.